Gearing up is bad

[Rowde]

BiS is optional content doh

As someone else pointed out, when the next raid tier drops all the current BiS immediately becomes irrelevant. Not just because there's a new BiS hurrdurr, but also because the new crafted sets are immediately available, so the prior BiS isn't even really viable for prog in the next tier.

[Shironeko_Narunyan]

Are the streamers now sending their minions out to further their agenda?

[Saraide]

Are the streamers now sending their minions out to further their agenda?

Or a bunch of people agree with that take specifically? Nah cant be, everyone except me is just a mindless drone parroting whatever streamer man says.

[Stepjam]

I think it's fine. It's clear from a business perspective why it exists, but they want you to be playing for months, not just a couple of weeks.

Besides, gearing isn't even that important for like 80% of players. Just get full crafted gear and you are set until like 6.2

[Waterscape]

I think it's fine. It's clear from a business perspective why it exists, but they want you to be playing for months, not just a couple of weeks.

Besides, gearing isn't even that important for like 80% of players. Just get full crafted gear and you are set until like 6.2

what is that mentality ....

[Raoabolic]

what is that mentality ....

It's the mentality someone gets when they realize the pattern that the dev team has been using since HW, lol. Besides, after they homogenized classes to the point where many of them lose what's unique about them what would gear options do? Varied gear only works when you have varied builds. You are not going to come across a pld who can heal consistently or a brd who specializes in buffing the party so why make armor that breaks the mold? This is why I don't want to them to touch Puppetmaster. That was one of my favorite classes in XI due to how versatile they are, I don't want XIV's team to go full blu on my pup.

[Ayche]

So when 6.1 rolls by, we will get the first third of the 24-man raid, which will also drop gear in the same ilvl as the 2nd tomes.
Like that doubles the amount of ilvl 590 gear you can get each week in a way.

[Stepjam]

I will say that I'm sure there could be a theoretically better gearing system, but I don't know what it would look like. With how XIV is balanced, I don't think sidegrades would work really. And it does feel pretty pointless to get BiS outside of ultimate tiers because there's literally nothing to use it on since those who are serious enough to get BiS will just get new crafted sets as soon as the new tier drops.

I think the current system is 100% functional. It works as it should, but aside from glamour there isn't really any long term joy from gearing up. But with how tightly XIV is balanced, I'm not sure what an alternate system would look like to keep you using the same set for a longer period of time.

[Driavna]

I think gearing is fine. As a raid tier progress more sources of gear are available. 24 Raids, new extreme weaposn and crafted gear probably will have an upgrade using regular tomes. Having enough gear to comfortable clear any kind of content is there so there is no artificial gate. Having the ability to only BIS one or two classes per patch cycle I say it's ok.

Also, gear has three uses:

- Glamour.

- Soft nerf of the hardest content for those players that need extra stats (nothing wrong with this).

- Ultimate if current raid tier happens to have it.

I don't know, FFXIV it's an MMO so I think it's ok to have long term goals. Also just because one char can be everything that does not mean every single class should feel like a main.

[Waterscape]

I think gearing is fine. As a raid tier progress more sources of gear are available. 24 Raids, new extreme weaposn and crafted gear probably will have an upgrade using regular tomes. Having enough gear to comfortable clear any kind of content is there so there is no artificial gate. Having the ability to only BIS one or two classes per patch cycle I say it's ok.

Also, gear has three uses:

- Glamour.

- Soft nerf of the hardest content for those players that need extra stats (nothing wrong with this).

- Ultimate if current raid tier happen to have it.

I don't know, FFXIV it's an MMO so I think it's ok to have long term goals. Also just because one char can be everything that does not mean every single class should feel like a main.

No its not okay to only be able to bis one or two job per patch cycle. WHAT THE HELL jesus christ ... there is 19 jobs in this game rn i want to experience the raid tier with the most job possible and i'm sure that is the case for a lot of people ... that is why people are not playing the game anymore after they are done clearing and gear up their main job THERE IS LITERALLY NOTHING TO DO because they are stuck with their main for literally MONTHS